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Emma Gail Duerden

Western UniversityORCID 0000-0002-9734-7865Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 5 Assay:imaging· 5 Approach:statistical model· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1

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Emily S. NicholsiD· 3 shared ALI RAZA KHANiD· 2 shared Kevin D. StubbsiD· 2 shared M. KentiD· 2 shared Sandrine de RibaupierreiD· 2 shared Alexandra Kowalczyk· 1 shared Catherine A. LebeliD· 1 shared Eun Jung ChoiiD· 1 shared

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Hippocampal subfield macrostructure and myelination demonstrate distinct maturational signatures

Kassandra Roger, Emily S. Nichols, Mahmoud Salman, Ali R. Khan, Emma Gail Duerden

The paper quantifies hippocampal subfield volumes and myelin-sensitive tissue concentrations in children and adolescents, finding distinct developmental trajectories and sex-specific patterns.

bioRxiv · Sep 10, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

fNIRS reveals that live social interactions and visual realism influence neural responses

M. Kent, Eva Deligiannis, Kevin D. Stubbs, Karsten Babin, Emma Gail Duerden, Jody C. Culham

This study uses fNIRS to show that live social interactions and visual realism of social partners affect neural responses in brain regions related to theory of mind.

bioRxiv · Aug 11, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Longitudinal Associations Between Screen Time, Brain Development, and Language Outcomes in Early Childhood

Eun Jung Choi, Emily S. Nichols, Lianne M. Tomfohr‐Madsen, Gerald F. Giesbrecht, Kathryn Y. Manning, Catherine A. Lebel, Emma Gail Duerden

This study examines how screen time at age two relates to language outcomes and brain development at ages two and three, finding negative associations between screen time and brain volumes.

bioRxiv · Aug 25, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Investigating task-free functional connectivity patterns in newborns using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Homa Vahidi, Alexandra Kowalczyk, Kevin D. Stubbs, Melab Musabi, Sriya Roychaudhuri, M. Kent, Soume Bhattacharya, Sandrine de Ribaupierre, Keith St. Lawrence, Yalda Mohsenzadeh, Emma Gail Duerden

This study uses fNIRS to examine functional connectivity in newborns, finding increased sensorimotor network connectivity with gestational and postnatal age.

Brain and Behavior · Dec 1, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

An automated BIDS-App for brain segmentation of human fetal functional MRI data

Emily S. Nichols, Susana Correa, Peter C. Van Dyken, Jason Kai, Tristan K. Kuehn, Sandrine de Ribaupierre, Emma Gail Duerden, ALI RAZA KHAN

The paper introduces funcmasker-flex, a BIDS App using a 3D U-net to automate fetal fMRI brain segmentation, achieving high Dice scores and reducing manual effort.

bioRxiv · Sep 2, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience